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Victorian Alps 128km Virtual Weather Radar - Beta

This radar is a composite of 128km & 256km BoM radars from Melbourne, Bairnsdale, Yarrawonga, Wagga Wagga, and Canberra. It provides a virtual radar that covers most of the Victorian Alpine region. It is centered over Mt Buller, and ranges from Mt.Baw Baw in the south, Lake Mountain in the East to Mt. Buffallo, Mt. Hotham, Falls Creek, Mt.Feathertop and Mt. Bogong. Please see some more specific notes on this below.

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You can often 'see' clear areas over the alps where the radars cannot see into during rain periods. This is due to the radars being blocked by the mountains

Rainfall in these areas can sometimes be seen if high enough though, and can often be implied by the rainfall going in and coming out the other side, particularly during N/NW systems where the rain is picked up by the Yarrawonga radar on one side, and the Bairnsdale one on the other

Similarly you can often see clear spots around isolated peaks like Mt.Buller and Mt.Buffallo where the radar is unable to 'see' the rain

Because this is a composite of many radars, there can be some 'straight line' artefacts where one radar ends and other provides data

Due to some radars being unavailable at times there may be gaps in the imagery

Currently the radar images are about 10 minutes behind when the original images are available from the BoM due to time required to access & process. This time will be reduced over the coming weeks

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